Omaha daily bee., 1887-12-25
1000 HOWARD STREET.

honors at the Military Academy and had the
sand to decline a soft snap in the army,
but chose instead hard work on the frontier
Major Carson is man of dry humor has
travelled extensively, and is Il thoroughgoing,
| allarOund writer who has few supcriors.
f. Is. Wight is short, thick-sct, little
make an excellent Santa Claus. He is, per-
haps, forty-tive years old, docs more real
hard work than any of his associates is an
| encyclopedia of information and has fad"
Sonse Ms wr'Ehts fu fad df is ssraps scrps. His HIS
has scraps on every subject. He has
volumes, and volumes, and volumes of scraps.
The collection and asserting of his scraps
take up the greater portion of his life. 1t is
| said that he is more devoted to his scraps
than to his children, but this is unfair. Mr..
Wight has two of the handsomcst little boys
in Washington. They are the grandchildren
of Colonel w. w. Clapp, of the Boston Jour
nal, which paper Mr.. Wight represents here,
as well as the Chicago InterOccan and the
New York Post. Mr.. Wight is also mem
ber of the press committee.
William G. Mcbride writes the widely
copied and raccy interviews and special arti-
cles for the Cincinnati Enquirer, and digs
out more political notes than any other man
! in the row. He is about forty-cight years
old; medium height: inclined to be stout;
black haired, black-cycd and can tell the diff
ference between poker deck and the revised
version. Mack has travelled eXtens-
, lively and is never happier than when
pulling his little black mustache and relat-
ing, IN a confidential mood, the incidents of
his life.
The fifth member of the committee is
| Major r. A. G.. Handy, who served in the
! confederate army as chief signal officer, and
| who was such a martinez and discipline
! rian that military offenders who were
brought before him for dicipline always re
| ported that there was just one place worse
| than Handy'S command, and that was the
| place that is never mentioned in polite so.
ciety Handy spends his summers on his Vir-
ginia farm, where he raises sweet potatoes
and cattle. He is man of family; enjoys
| life is good writer, and looks so much like
| Delegate Cain, of Utah, that he is always
| well posted on Mormon questions because
> Gains constituents make confident of him
| whenever they come to Washington. He
writes for the Chicago Times.
| Colonel Fred d. Mussey. whose 'F. d. NJ
| is the most familiar and pleasantly welcome
| signature in the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette, is upwards of forty and handsome.
He has grown bald headed in the newspaper
service, although his wel-shaped blonde mus
tache still fourishes. This shows that Fred
| works more with his head than he does with
| his jaw. Colonel Mussey's letters are as
| versatile as were ever sent out of Washing
| ton, dealing il politics, religion, pleasant and
unpleasant personalities.
Major Stofer pronounce this Stofah) was
born at Culpepper, Va. in 1856. Major Stofer
| was too young for active hpstilities during
| the late war, but his military title was well
| earned. AT the tender age of seven he did
| excellent service for the union army by sell
| ing pies to the confederate soldiers. Major
| Stofer asserts that he killed more confeder-
| ates than any one union riheman. He has
| been in the newspaper business in his native
town and in st. Louis ever since he could
scratch pen. He now represents the st.
| Louis Republican, and as he is of the bour-
| bon democratic proclivities he enjoys his
| work more than most people enjoy play.
| There is nothing that pleases him so well as
| to go for the republican officials and states
| men. He is an incisive and versatile writer,
and is still in the matrimonial market, al
| though it is about all he can do to avoid the
matrimonial net. Major Stofer has fad"
| 1t is the banjo.
writes three letters week, in which he has
| all the inside society gossip and some of the
best stories atloat Besides this he covers
| the entire New England with teegraphic dis
| patches every afternoon. He is light
weight, but mentally hard hitter. He is
| young. but married; is proud of his boy and
| in love with his WIFE
| Charles Nordhoff, OF the New York Her.
aid, is perhaps the best paid man in the list.
| He is the head of the New York Hcralds
bureau; comes and goes as he chooses; has
| the inside run of some lines of information
| and is n thoroughly posted man on all 09b
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| man, stockiiv bmlt. wears sncctaclcs. has
| closely cropped whiskers and his family are
among the leaders of Washington society.
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Inc TWO regular press associations are rep,
resented al the capital Dy large stars. David
X. Mckee, thc washington agent OF the New
YORK Associated press, makes nylng vislts 10
each mousse OF congress ana makes up the
connexions oy personal enort. re Is thor-
oughiy caucated writer himsell ana knows
when when, th,ngs are gong as they